US authorities have arrested an Iranian woman for trafficking arms to Sudan on behalf of her country, prosecutors have said. Shamim Mafi, 44, who has an American green card, was arrested at Los Angeles airport on Saturday and is accused…

Soon after Mohamed Suleiman entered the telecoms office in the coastal city of Port Sudan on 13 January he started to cry. He hadn’t heard his phone ring for most of Sudan’s civil war, which began exactly three years ago…

Rape and sexual violence remain “part of everyday life” in areas of Sudan even when fighting in the country’s civil war has moved elsewhere, according to a new report by medical charity Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF). Calling rape a “defining…